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This is Solomon’s song of songs, more wonderful than any other.

Song of Solomon 1:1

Your teeth are as white as sheep,
recently shorn and freshly washed.
Your smile is flawless,
each tooth matched with its twin.

Song of Solomon 4:2

• We come to the end of the books of poetry, or Hebrew wisdom literature. 
• These books reveal the basics of humanity. 
• Job represents the voice of the spirit in man, the deepest part of our nature. 
• The trilogy of Psalms, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes expresses the voice of the soul in its three parts–emotion, will, and mind. 
• Psalms is the book of the heart. 
• Proverbs is directed to the will, making its choices in life. 
• Ecclesiastes is the book of the mind, searching for answers. 
• Song of Solomon of the body is its essential yearning for love. 
• Our bodies are made in such a way to enjoy being touched and embraced. 
• The ultimate capacity for the delight of the senses is found inside the boundary of marriage. 
• This book describes sex as God intended it to be, involving not merely physical exchange but touching the whole nature of two lives. 
• Because the Song of Solomon is about sexual love, it has been mistreated and often neglected. 
• Some regard sex as something dirty and not to be mentioned in polite company but kept locked up behind curtains…and never preached about. 
• An opposite view treats sex as something so commonplace that it should be displayed and openly enjoyed whenever desired…and with whatever partner is available. 
• Both of these are not biblical. 
• In the Bible, sex is handled like every other subject, with frankness and forthrightness, yet also with purity and restraint. 
• Sexual love removed from the protection of marriage becomes abused and emerges as something dirty and wrong. 
• In the Song of Solomon, we find it treated with beauty. 
• In the Song of Solomon, we find it reflecting a wholesome delight in the joys of marriage. 
• In the Song of Solomon, we find God’s design for holy sexuality. 
• God’s design for holy sexuality is faithfulness in marriage, as He defined.
• God’s design for holy sexuality is abstinence in singleness. 
• God’s plan is always good and right.

Do not let the world cheapen what God has ordained. Do not let the world tarnish God’s definition. Do not let the world define that which belongs to God.